Hello 2009/4/10 Obey Arthur Liu <[email protected]>: > * KDE/Qt4 Adept 3.0 Package Manager: > Petr Rockai, the original developer of Adept has offered help to anyone > willing to adopt Adept. Sune Vuorela has offered help for any Qt4 and > KDE related issues. *We really need a mentor here*. The student is quite > competent but Google dictates that we provide a mentor to handle student > management.
I want to ask someone for stay mentor for this project. I think that this is very important project. Maybe not as aptitude or something else, but it is still important. "Why?" someone wants to ask. "We have aptitude, Synaptic, KPackage". OK, but KPackage doesn't support deb package features (like debconf), I tried use this for some time, but it has big problems with instaling everything, KPackage tried unistall half system when I want to install xmms (it was in past, so maybe not it is fixed, but it show how useless is this application). Synaptic has problems with dependence. It show error when aptitude install package without problems (actualy aptitude is still not perfect, in future I want to make something like OPIUM (Optimal Package Install/Unistall Manager - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1248851 not drug)). Aptitude-GTK? It use GTK+, not everyone wants to install GTK+, I use KDE, why I need GTK. Debian is dependence on Gnome? Who cares? I want KDE, I like KDE, it is big, it is slow, it is like cow, but I sill prefer KDE that Gnome. Debian is most universal distro I even seen. If you still want to dependece Debian on Gnome maybe is the moment to rename Debian to Gebian (like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu). Actually aptitude-gtk is still in develope, so only few people try to use this, but in future before aptitude-qt will start, it takes some time. Aptitude-ncurses? If there is a person which want to learn Linux, but for this moment using console for them is too hard why he/she must be force to use it? Even if nobody stay mentor for this project I will try make it myself. Maybe for scratch, maybe I will use OPIUm ideas, maybe I will spend on this project few years. I don't care, I will make it. "OK, but why you need to do it at GSoC?" someone may ask. Because... Google pay for this. "You are idiot, go home!" someone may scream. But nobody says that Open Source mean free. All Open Source programers work for free? Nooooo... Linus, SuSE, Red Hat, I am not sure but few Debian Developers too. With money from GSoC I can buy 3-4 years old car in Poland. At GSoC I must work only week for ticket from Poland to Spain. In my current job I must work 4 weeks. So it is nothing bad that it is good way to make money. I am not competent as Arthur wrote. Actualy I am very lazy and stupid person. But, as long as I make good job onebody should care about that. I will make the best I can to finish this project (OK, this project will never end, but you know what I mean). So, if is courageous person to stay mentor for this project I will be very, very grateful. -- Mateusz "Matthew" Marek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
